The Snider Prize

The Snider Prize is a purchase award given to emerging artists in their final year of graduate study. The winner will receive $2,000, and two honorable mentions will each receive $500 towards the purchase of work to be added to the MoCP's permanent collection. Sponsored by Lawrence K. and Maxine Snider, the Snider Prize forms a part of the museum's ongoing commitment to support new talent in the field of contemporary photography.

Applications open on January 29, 2018 and will be accepted through April 1, 2018. Winners will be announced on May 1, 2018.

The 2017 Snider Prize was awarded to Nakeya Brown (American, b. 1988). Brown uses photography to extract and redefine symbols of femininity. Her practice centers around black female subjectivity, black beauty, and often uses hair as an apparatus to identity facets of womanhood. Brown completed her BA in Visual Art/Journalism and Media Studies from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. and received her MFA from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

The 2016 Snider Prize was awarded to Adam Golfer (American, b. 1985). His series, A House Without a Roof, considers the fractures of the overlapping histories of violence and displacement connecting Europe, Israel and Palestine. With photographs, archival imagery, and original texts, Golfer weaves together fictions of his family history with representations from Israel's founding and ongoing military occupation. Previously, his work has been exhibited in New York and Washington, DC, including at the 92Y in Manhattan, the Goethe-Institut Washington, the Camera Club of NY and at Booklyn Artists Space in Brooklyn. Golfer is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College, and he received a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

The 2015 Snider Prize was awarded to Trent Davis Bailey (American, b. 1985). Bailey uses photography to piece together a map of his experience of The North Fork – a valley in Colorado whose landscape and inhabitants inspire the artist to explore his own complex terrain of memory and family. His work has been exhibited extensively in California and Colorado, including at The Piedmont Center for the Arts in Piedmont, CA, Gray Loft Gallery, in Oakland, and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, among others. Bailey is currently an MFA candidate at the California College of the Arts, and received his BFA in Photography and BA in Art History from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The 2014 Snider Prize award recipient was Hyounsang Yoo. Yoo's works explore relationships between history and ideas of production of reality through photography, video, installation and sculpture. His work has been exhibited in the Bridge Art Fair, NY; EXPO Chicago; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. Yoo received his BFA in Photography from The School of the Art Institute Chicago, and is currently an MFA candidate at SAIC. Yoo received $2000 for the purchase of work to be added to MoCP's permanent collection.

The 2013 Snider Prize award recipient was Janna Ireland. In her series,The Spotless Mirror (2011-2013), the artist creates self-portraits as a means to explore the performance of femininity, domesticity, isolation, and black identity. Ireland completed a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU (2007) and an MFA from UCLA (2013). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Schneider Gallery, Chicago (2013); The Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, California (2013); and Lennox Contemporary in Toronto, Canada (2005).

Janna Ireland, The Spotless Mirror, 2012

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